How To Write Your Name In Japanese

For example if your name is maria look for the katakana character for ma which is マ then the character for ri which is リ and then character for a which is ア.

How to write your name in japanese. Japanese words are composed of vowels or a consonant followed by a vowel for example ie no or mizu water. If you like you can also choose from a few different character styles. To get a kanji name with a similar pronunciation to an english name ask a japanese person for help or look in a book.

You just need to put them together and write マリア for maria many. To write your name in japanese the easiest way is to find a katakana letter that corresponds to the pronunciation of your japanese name. The japanese write foreign words phonetically so it.

This dictionary does not contain japanese names. To write a name in kanji the faq has an online abc to kanji converter which converts letters into similar looking kanji but this will not give a meaningful pronunciation. To see what your name looks like in japanese just type it in below and click the translate button.

Japanese names are normally written using kanji characters not katakana.